Increasing the Number of Organ Transplants in the United States by Optimizing Donor Authorization Rates

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2117-2125

  Goldberg, D S ^a,b,c   French, B ^b,c   Abt, P L ^d   Gilroy, R K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

donors and donation; donors and donation: donation after brain death (DBD); organ procurement; organ procurement organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DONOR AUTHORIZATION RATE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; DONOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84937519203     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13362     Document Type: Article

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